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Typhoid fever

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  1. 1
    An illness caused by the bacterium serovar Salmonella Typhi. Not to be confused with typhus. countable, uncountable

    "The great French microbiologist Louis Pasteur [...] lost three of his five children to typhoid fever."

  2. 2
    serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water wordnet

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